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JALTIMORE, known as the " Monumental City" from the number and beauty of its 
stone memorials, dates its history as a community from July 14, 1729, when a petition 
was presented to the Provincial Assembly praying for the erection of a town on the 
north side of the Patapsco River. Chesapeake Bay offered great advantages to ships 
engaged in foreign commerce, and the settlement rapidly grew to be one of the busiest 
towns on the coast. During the Revolution Baltimore became the seat of the Conti- 
nental Congress when the patriots were forced by Lord Howe to evacuate Philadelphia. 
In ISU the city was attacked by a combined British fleet and army. Both were 
defeated, and the leader of the land forces. General Ross, was killed. The repulse of 
the British vessels at Fort McHenry inspired a citizen of Baltimore, Francis S. Key, 
to write the words of the great national anthem, " The Star Spangled Banner." In 1S44, the first telegraph 
line was constructed from Baltimore to Washington and the first message was received in Baltimore. 

After the Civil War, Baltimore rapidly emerged into a new importance and became a great industrial 
center. It now has a population of about 600,000 and covers an area of almost thirty-two square miles. It 
is the largest corn exporting port in the United States, and is also engaged in an immense export trade in 
wheat, flour, cotton, tobacco, copper and coal. In manufacturing enterprises its industry is most varied, 
scarcely a single important article of manufacture being unrepresented. Its railroad facilities are superb. 
Baltimore is the seat of many splendid institutions of learning, including the great Johns Hopkins 
I'niversity, and the city ranks with the foremost in educational matters. Its graded system of public 
schools is considered a model, and requires a force of almost two thousand teachers. The city is famous 
for its splendid hospitals, its noteworthy ecclesiastical structures, and for the solidity and convenience of 
its business architecture. 

The public parks and squares of Baltimore are beautiful and well distributed, and the attractive suburbs, 
extending for miles about the city, are connected by a metropolitan electric street railway service. 

The position of Baltimore at the head of Chesapeake Bay with its ample harbor, allied with the unrivalled 
public spirit of its citizens, is a guarantee of the future eminence of the city. Now the sixth in size in the 
United States, it is surely destined to become a leader as a distinctively American metropolis. 

Published by L. H. NELSON COMPANY, Portland, Maine 
Proprietors of Nelson's International Series of Souvenir Books 

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WESTMINISTER PKESliYTKRIAN CHI'RCH 

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